#13742: Installation with the package did not run the postflight script -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: mellonjasper@gmail.com | Owner: jmpp@macports.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: MacPorts base bugs Component: base | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: | Keywords: installation postflight -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Comment (by sidney@sidney.com): I may have stumbled on a clue and a workaround. I am seeing the same problem on a close to fresh install of Leopard. I don't know exactly how it was installed because it is a new machine with my IT dept's standard Mac image. When I downloaded and ran the Macports installer there was no .profile in my home directory and no ports environment. I downloaded the postflight script and ran it, forgetting to use "sudo". That successfully created a ~/.profile that sets PATH and MANPATH and then died trying to run the rsync because it did not have permissions. When I then used sudo to run the postflight it produced the following output with errors: The MacPorts Project, postflight script version 1.6.1: checking the shell environment for user "root". Unknown shell (sh)! Please set your MacPorts compatible environment manually. Synchronizing the MacPorts installation with the project's rsync server... Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ receiving file list ... done Then the rsync got run ok. The end result of running postflight first as user then with sudo seemed to be a working installation. Running 'sudo su' does end up with an sh prompt, not bash. I'm not sure if it is relevant but I have noticed that one change in Leopard is that by default sudo is configured to not pass through most environment variables from the user environment to root's shell environment. So if postflight is checking the environment it will not see the right things when run under sudo. Actually, how does postflight deal with making changes to the user's .profile but having to run as root in order to do the rsync? -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13742#comment:15> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS